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Electrical and Computer Engineering Faculty

Bharat Bhuva

Research Focus: Computer aided design tools, radiation effects on integrated circuits, modeling of semiconductor devices and fabrication processes, and VLSI design
01Tenure/Tenure-Track

Catie Chang

Research Focus: Functional neuroimaging techniques and applications; signal processing and computational analysis
01Tenure/Tenure-Track

Benoit Dawant

Research Focus: Medical image processing and analysis, image registration, image segmentation, image-guided surgery.
01Tenure/Tenure-Track

Mona Ebrish

Research Focus: Developing multiple techniques to fabricate and evaluate biological and chemical sensors that can be integrated with efficient power devices on foundry compatible chiplets, small integrated circuits with specialized functionality that make up larger integrated circuits
01Tenure/Tenure-Track

Philippe Fauchet

Research Focus: Photonics, energy, and the semiconductor/biology interface, all using silicon-based nanoscience and nanotechnology
01Tenure/Tenure-Track

Daniel Fleetwood

Research Focus: Effects of ionizing radiation on microelectronic devices and materials, microelectronics reliability, defects and low-frequency noise.
01Tenure/Tenure-Track

Weng Poo Kang

Research Focus: Solid-state sensors, semiconductor devices, VLSI design
01Tenure/Tenure-Track

Gabor Karsai

Research Focus: Model-driven software and system development, model-integrated computing, distributed and resilient software platforms, verification and assurance of autonomous systems
01Tenure/Tenure-Track

Bennett Landman

Research Focus: Magnetic resonance imaging & statistical analysis with emphasis on medical imaging.
01Tenure/Tenure-Track

Lloyd Massengill

Research Focus: Radiation-hardened circuit design, simulation of radiation effects on microelectronic circuits, soft error analysis, analog circuit design.
01Tenure/Tenure-Track

Justus Ndukaife

Research Focus: Nanophotonics, microfluidics, novel bio-inspired soft actuators and robots
01Tenure/Tenure-Track

Jack Noble

Research Focus: Medical image processing including image segmentation as well as other techniques related to computer-aided surgery.
01Tenure/Tenure-Track

Sokrates Pantelides

Research Focus:  Theoretical/computational -- Nanoscience and nanotechnology, semiconductors and semiconductor devices (defects, defects-mediated device degradation), complex oxides and heterostrutures, ferroelectrics, two-dimensional materials
01Tenure/Tenure-Track

Richard Alan Peters

Research Focus: Digital image processing, computer vision, Digital signal processing, computer graphics, software engineering, electromagnetic theory, applied mathematics
01Tenure/Tenure-Track

Robert Reed

Research Focus: Radiation effects on electronics
01Tenure/Tenure-Track

Ronald Schrimpf

Research Focus: Semiconductor device physics, radiation effects and reliability in semiconductor devices, microelectronic test structures, and simulation tools for microelectronics
01Tenure/Tenure-Track

Sharon Weiss

Research Focus: Light-matter interaction, silicon photonics, porous silicon biosensors, nanotechnology, nanocomposite materials
01Tenure/Tenure-Track

D. Mitchell Wilkes

Research Focus: Digital signal processing, image processing and computer vision, digital signal processing hardware, structurally adaptive systems, sonar, signal modeling
01Tenure/Tenure-Track

Walter Collett

02Teaching

Michael Alles

Research Focus: Application of advanced and emerging semiconductor technologies in radiation environments, modeling and simulation of radiation effects in semiconductor devices and circuits, and workforce development
03Research

Shunxing Bao

Research Focus: Big data management, Biomedical informatics, Medical image analysis
03Research

Theodore Bapty

Research Focus: model integrated computing, software integrated systems 
03Research

J. L. Davidson

Research Focus: Microelectronics processing, Solid state sensors, Diamond technology, Micromechanical structures
03Research

Zhaohua Ding

Research Focus: Magnetic resonance imaging and integrated studies of brain structure and function
03Research

Kenneth Galloway

Research Focus: Solid state devices, microelectronics, reliability, radiation effects
03Research

Tim Holman

Research Focus: Low power/low voltage/low noise analog/mixed-signal IC design; radiation-tolerant analog/mixed-signal circuit design
03Research

Jeffrey Kauppila

Research Focus: Radiation-Hardened Circuit Design, Radiation-Enabled Compact Modeling, Simulation of Radiation Effects on Circuits and Systems, Layout-Aware Modeling, Near-Threshold Computing, Digital Circuit Design, Analog Circuit Design, Mixed-Signal Circuit Design
03Research

Kazuhiko Kawamura

Research Focus: Intelligent systems, cognitive robotics, humanoid robotics, human-robot symbiosis, behavior learning, computational intelligence
03Research

James McBride

Research Focus: Applying advanced electron microscopy techniques towards the understanding of the structure-property relationships of colloidal quantum dots, Aberration-corrected electron microscopy to image the true structure of core/shell nanocrystals, Correlating the atomic structure and the photoluminescence of the same quantum dot, Volume imaging and cryo-electron tomography lamella preparation
03Research

Christina McGahan

Research Focus: manipulating and probing the optical, electronic, and structural properties of nanoscale materials as well as using this precise control of materials and their properties to help researchers solve challenging nanoscale scientific problems in areas ranging from medicine and biology to chemistry, physics, engineering, and beyond
03Research

Brian Sierawski

Research Focus: Radiation effects on microelectronics, simulation software development, small satellites, and on-orbit experiments
03Research

Robert Weller

Research Focus: Radiation effects in semiconductor devices and materials, computer simulation of radiation effects and semiconductor devices, thin film materials and nanostructures
03Research

Arthur Witulski

Research Focus: Radiation effects on electronic power semiconductor devices and power electronic converters, radiation reliability of complex systems in radiation environments such as satellites and robots in nuclear disasters.
03Research

Enxia Zhang

Research Focus: radiation effects on microelectronics, RF devices and ICs 
03Research

John Beck

04Adjunct/Adjoint

Ashok Choudhury

Research Focus: materials science, technology transfer
04Adjunct/Adjoint

Laurie Cutting

Research Focus: Cognitive neuroscience of learning
04Adjunct/Adjoint

Pierre DHaese

Research Focus: medical image processing 
04Adjunct/Adjoint

William Hofmeister

Research Focus: Additive Manufacture, Laser/Material Processing, bioMEMS. Nucleation, solidification and diamond microelectronics.
04Adjunct/Adjoint

Shuren Hu

Research Focus: Silicon photonics, Integrated photonics, photonic crystal, topological photonics
04Adjunct/Adjoint

John Hutson

04Adjunct/Adjoint

Arto Javanainen

Research Focus: Radiation effects and reliability in semiconductor devices
04Adjunct/Adjoint

Steven Kosier

Research Focus: Radiation effects on integrated circuits and power devices, hardness assurance of commercial and automotive semiconductors in space and military applications.
04Adjunct/Adjoint

Francois Rheault

Research Focus: Development of algorithms, pipelines, and tools for medical image analysis; multimodal neuroimaging (including processing, segmentation, statistical analysis, and scientific visualization)
04Adjunct/Adjoint

William H. Robinson

Research Focus: Cybersucurity, Hardware Security, Radiation Effects in Microelectronics, Broadening participation in Engineering
04Adjunct/Adjoint

Andrew Sternberg

Research Focus: Modeling of semiconductors and circuits in radiation environments, laser simulation of radiation effects
04Adjunct/Adjoint

Stephanie Weeden-Wright

Research Focus: Semiconductor device physics, radiation effects and reliability in semiconductor devices, and simulation tools for microelectronics
04Adjunct/Adjoint

Gautam Biswas

Research Focus: Model- and Data-Driven methods for Monitoring, Control, Diagnostics, Prognostics, and Fault tolerance in Cyber Physical Systems, Reinforcement Learning, Intelligent Learning Environments, Learning Analytics, Integrated Planning, Scheduling, Control, and Resource Allocation for Complex systems
05Affiliated

Robert Bodenheimer

Research Focus: Virtual Environments, Computer Animation, Computer Graphics
05Affiliated

Audrey Bowden

Research Focus: Biophotonics tools for applications in early detection, diagnosis and therapy for cancer; development and deployment of low-cost, high-performing point-of-care technologies for rural and global health applications
05Affiliated

David Braun

Research Focus: Robotics, optimal control, system dynamics, compliant robot actuators, human performance augmentation technology
05Affiliated

Joshua Caldwell

Research Focus: Nano-optics, polaritonics, nanophotonics, infrared and Raman spectroscopy, active photonics, infrared optics and imaging, power electronic materials, defects in semiconductors
05Affiliated

Mark Does

Research Focus: MRI, neuroimaging, cardiac imaging, MR microscopy
05Affiliated

Abhishek Dubey

Research Focus: Decision Procedures, Big Data, Cyber-Physical Systems, Smart-Cities, Machine Learning, Distributed Systems
05Affiliated

Dario Englot

Research Focus: Brain networks in epilepsy and other neurological disorders; Functional and anatomic neuroimaging; Human electrophysiology; Functional neurosurgery
05Affiliated

Leonard Feldman

Research Focus: nanoscience and engineering, semiconductor materials
05Affiliated

Aniruddha Gokhale

Research Focus: Cloud/Edge Computing; Fault tolerant and real-time computing; cyber physical systems; model driven engineering
05Affiliated

Michael Goldfarb

Research Focus: Design, modeling, and control of electromechanical devices and systems. Design of high-energy-density robotic actuators. Control of fluid-powered actuators and devices.
05Affiliated

William Grissom

Research Focus: Magnetic resonance imaging; Inverse problems; Optimization;Signal processing; Electromagnetics.
05Affiliated

Yuankai Huo

Research Focus: Biomedical data representation, biomedical image processing, machine learning, data science
05Affiliated

Taylor Johnson

Research Focus: Cyber-physical systems, IoT, formal methods, software engineering, software safety, verification and validation, formal verification, hybrid systems, switched systems, control theory, programming languages, distributed systems, cyber-security, control theory, reliability, automotive systems, aerospace systems, transportation systems, robotics, power electronics, power systems, medical devices
05Affiliated

Gabor Karsai

Research Focus: Model-driven software and system development, model-integrated computing, distributed and resilient software platforms, verification and assurance of autonomous systems
05Affiliated

Xenofon Koutsoukos

Research Focus: Hybrid and embedded systems, cyber-physical systems, sensor networks
05Affiliated

Akos Ledeczi

Research Focus: Wireless sensor networks, model integrated computing, embedded systems, computer science education
05Affiliated

Sandeep Neema

Research Focus: Embedded systems, design-space exploration, model integrated computing
05Affiliated

Ipek Oguz

Research Focus: Medical image analysis, image segmentation, machine learning, image registration
05Affiliated

Nilanjan Sarkar

Research Focus: analysis, design, and development of intelligent and autonomous systems that can work with people in a versatile and natural way
05Affiliated

Kurt Schilling

Research Focus: Image acquisition, processing, and modeling of medical images in order to map the microstructural and connectivity of the brain and spinal cord
05Affiliated

Douglas Schmidt

Research Focus: Mobile cloud computing, distributed real-time and embedded middleware, cyber-physical systems, software patterns and frameworks, and digital learning
05Affiliated

David Smith

Research Focus: New techniques and applications for MRI in cancer imaging, in particular mathematical methods such as compressed sensing and machine learning.
05Affiliated

Jonathan Sprinkle

05Affiliated

Janos Sztipanovits

Research Focus: Embedded software, Structurally adaptive systems, Model-integrated computing
05Affiliated

Ahmad F. Taha

Research Focus: Dynamic networks and cyber-physical systems sciences; Sustainable power systems control, operation, and planning; Water distribution networks control and optimization; Transportation systems state estimation and feedback control problems; Cyber-security of power grids, water networks, and global positioning system (GPS)
05Affiliated

Jason Valentine

Research Focus: Optical metamaterials, plasmonics, transformation optics, nanophotonics, nanoimaging, active photonics, gradient index optics, high spatial resolution bioimaging and sensing, solar energy conversion, scalable 3D nanomanufacturing.
05Affiliated

Greg Walker

Research Focus: Micro-scale heat transfer, heat flux measurement, energy transport processes, ultrasonic pyrometry, thermographic phospors, energy conversion devices, high-performance computing
05Affiliated

Robert Webster

Research Focus: Image guidance, robotic surgery, screw theory, mechanics-based modeling, and optimal mechanism design
05Affiliated

Jie Ying Wu

Research Focus: Surgical robotics, soft-tissue simulation, user action and skill recognition, cognitive load assessment
05Affiliated

Xinqiang Yan

Research Focus: Magnetic resonate imaging and MR-guided focused ultrasound, development of novel algorithms for parallel transmission and novel devices such as radiofrequency transmitters, radiofrequency detectors, local shimming coils, and metamaterials
05Affiliated

Arthur Brodersen

Research Focus: Intelligent tutoring systems, asynchronous distance learning courseware, first-year engineering courseware, and integrated electronic circuits and semiconductor devices.
06Emeritus

J. L. Davidson

Research Focus: Microelectronics processing, Solid state sensors, Diamond technology, Micromechanical structures
06Emeritus

Kenneth Galloway

Research Focus: Solid state devices, microelectronics, reliability, radiation effects
06Emeritus

Robert House

06Emeritus

Kazuhiko Kawamura

Research Focus: Intelligent systems, cognitive robotics, humanoid robotics, human-robot symbiosis, behavior learning, computational intelligence
06Emeritus

Robert Weller

Research Focus: Radiation effects in semiconductor devices and materials, computer simulation of radiation effects and semiconductor devices, thin film materials and nanostructures
06Emeritus

Francis Wells

Research Focus: Arc detection in power equipment, discontinous control of space conditioning processes
06Emeritus

Edward White

06Emeritus

James Wittig

Research Focus: Undercool-rapid-quench processing, magnetic materials, analytical electron
06Emeritus